Bellingham Comments from Digital Recorder - EISs for the Proposed ...

GATEWAY PACIFIC TERMINAL EIS SCOPING HEARING VOL. II
COURT REPORTER: BETH DRUMMOND PROCEEDING DATE: October 27, 2012
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1 So the sun comes through, bounces to the coal,
2 it's absorbed. Where does it go? It stays here, so the
3 earth warms.
4 And I want to just say that that carbon and
5 graphite -- graphite is a lubricant. When I worked at the
6 bike shop, when we put graphite on our chains to lubricate
7 them.
8 The tracks covered in coal dust, well, I guess
9 that's a little bit slippery. I'd like to see that examined
10 as to whether the graphite, the carbon, makes the tracks,
11 the train tracks more slippery.
12 So it's hard to measure the heat sink idea, but
13 what I would like to see is existing coal mounds monitored
14 for the temperature surface above and below, and compare it
15 to the wetlands that will be removed and the same way of
16 measuring it. Thank you.
17 MS. STRAUSZ-CLARK: Just a quick announcement,
18 there are about ten numbered comment cards available at the
19 welcome desk.
20 If anyone would like to make a comment this
21 morning and would like a card, you can proceed to the
22 welcome desk and pick one up. Some people have turned
23 theirs back in, so please feel free to go do that. It's
24 going to be first come, first serve, of course.
25 And now I'm going to ask for 36, 37, and 38. 36